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Berlin is a municipality in the Usulután Department, in El Salvador. The municipality is also one of the four capital districts of the department. It is located at the east of El Salvador, 112 kilometers from the capital city San Salvador. The municipality of Berlin is situated in the Tecapa-Chinameca-Alegrìa mountain zone, located in the central-north of Usulután.

Founded in 1885 as Berlin, by the residents of the previous "Gramalón" or "Agua Caliente" and by a German known as Serafin Brennen, who has arrived to establish the municipality, after surviving a shipwreck off the Salvadoran coast.